Engineering & Design
ExxonMobil completes heavy lift of hydrocracker tower at Rotterdam refinery
ROTTERDAM -- ExxonMobil successfully completed the heavy lift of its vacuum fractionation tower for the hydrocracker at its Rotterdam refinery this April.
Bahrain's Bapco starts talks with contractors on Sitra expansion bids
DUBAI (Reuters) -- State-run Bahrain Petroleum Co (Bapco) has started two weeks of negotiations with international contractors to clarify bids to expand the Sitra oil refinery, estimated to cost around $5 B.
Alfa Laval awarded heat exchanger order for West African refinery
LUND, Sweden -- Alfa Laval has won an order to supply Alfa Laval Packinox heat exchangers to a refinery in West Africa. The order, booked in the Welded Heat Exchangers unit of the Energy Division late March, has a value of approximately SEK 55 million and delivery is scheduled for 2017 and 2018.
ChemChina, IPP team to supply turn-key chlor-alkali plants
PRINCETON JUNCTION, New Jersey and BEIJING -- International Process Plants (IPP) and ChemChina's Bluestar (Beijing) Chemical Machinery Company, Ltd. (BCMC) announce a partnership for IPP to provide new chlorine alkali plants designed and built by BCMC to industries around the world.
CB&I to provide up to 30 technologies to refining, petchem complex in China
THE WOODLANDS, Texas -- CB&I announced it has signed a strategic alliance with Jinzhou Port Co., Ltd. (Jingang) to become the master licensor for an integrated refining and petrochemicals project in Jinzhou City, China.
Business Trends: Standardized modularization—Drivers, challenges and perspectives in the oil and gas industry
Modularization is an alternative way of performing engineering aimed to reduce the number of interfaces, the total installed cost (TIC) and overall schedule length of a project, while optimizing the return on investment (ROI) and allowing standardization for similar future projects.
Enhancements in EO/EG production technology
The markets for ethylene oxide (EO) and ethylene glycol (EG) continue to see attractive growth. This means that at least one or two new plants will need to be constructed every year if the industry is to meet forecast demand.
GTC provides isomerization, dividing wall technology at BPCL refinery in India
HOUSTON, Texas — GTC Technology has provided its low-temperature Isomalk-2 process technology for the successful start-up of a light naphtha isomerization unit at the Bharat Petroleum Corporation, Ltd. refinery in Mumbai, India.
Fluor completes construction of Dow Chemical’s ethylene production facility
IRVING, Texas – Fluor Corporation announced that it has safely finished the mechanical construction of The Dow Chemical Company’s new ethylene production facility in Freeport, Texas on schedule.
Yanchang Petroleum’s large-scale CCUS facility enters construction in China
XI'AN, China – China’s first large-scale carbon capture storage and utilization (CCUS) facility enters construction. The facility's final investment decision represents a series of "firsts" for China and Yanchang Petroleum, one of China's largest oil and gas companies and the facility's owner.
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